CBSE Class 10 Answered

Rich peasant communities

• The rich peasant communities like the Patidars of Gujarat and the Jats of Uttar Pradesh – were active in the movement
• They were hit hard by the Great Depression and found it extremely difficult to pay the government’s revenue demands.
• For the rich peasants the fight for swaraj was a struggle against high revenues. But they were disappointed after the Movement was withdrawn without revising any revenue rates

Business Class

• During the First World War, the business class had made huge profits and had become powerful. The industrialist class led by known industrialists such as Purshottamdas Thakurdas and G. D. Birla supported the Movement and criticised the colonial control over the Indian economy.
• They gave financial assistance and refused to buy or sell imported goods.
• For most industrialists, Swaraj was a time when the government’s restrictions on business would end.